Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A supposed disintegration-product of actinium from the disintegration of which radium, in turn, results. See the extract.
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- noun physics, dated A supposed
decomposition -product ofactinium once thought to be the source ofradium
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Examples
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For the next two years, they continued to copublish on the atomic weights of uranium, thorium, and ionium. 86 In addition, their research showed that ionium was not a separate element but just an isotope of thorium.
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An ionium collector, for which the radioactive material was kindly supplied by Mr.F. H. Glew, was used.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
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Other radioactive elements have been discovered since: actinium (Debierne), radiothorium and mesothorium (Hahn), ionium (Boltwood), etc.
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Taking the atomic weight of uranium as 238.5, the atomic weight of ionium should be 230.5, of radium 226.5, of the emanation 222.5, and so on.
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For example, in the uranium-ionium-radium series, uranium expels two a-particles and each of the six following a-ray products one, i.e. eight in all.
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I can only refer in passing here to the large amount of work done by various experimenters in analysing the long series of transformations of radium and thorium and actinium; the linking up of radium with uranium and the discovery by Boltwood of the long looked-for and elusive parent of radium, viz. ionium.
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Thus were found the mesothorium now used by physicians and manufactured industrially, radio-thorium, ionium, protoactinium, radio-lead, and other substances.
Pierre Curie 1923
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Other radioactive elements have been discovered since: actinium (Debierne), radiothorium and mesothorium (Hahn), ionium (Boltwood), etc.
Radium And The New Concepts In Chemistry: Nobel Lecture 1911
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